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Stuffed Lemon Rice Salmon
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Ingredients
- 1 cup celery, sliced
- 2 1/2 cups water
- 1 1/ 4 cup whole grain rice
- 1 1/2 cup fresh mushrooms, sliced
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 6 tbspn olive or canola oil
- 1/4 tspn thyme leaves
- 2 tspn grated lemon peel
- 1/2 tspn salt
- 1/4 tspn pepper
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1 whole cleaned salmon (4 to 8 pounds)
- 1 small grapefruit
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Instructions
- Add 6 tbspn oil to saucepan.
- Add sliced celery and chopped onion.
- Cook over medium-high heat until vegetables are tender.
- Add thyme leaves, lemon peel, lemon juice and water.
- Bring to a boil.
- Mix in rice and cover
- Reduce heat to low.
- Cook for 20 minutes.
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While rice is cooking:
- Add remaining 3 tbspn oil to skillet.
- Add mushroom slices and cook over medium heat until soft.
When rice is done, stir in mushrooms, salt and pepper
- Lightly pack stuffing into cavity of the whole salmon.
- Sew opening closed with heavy thread.
- Cut a piece of heavy-duty aluminum foil to fit one side of fish.
- Coat foil generously with olive oil.
- Slice grapefruit as thinly as possible. Then lay half the slices, overlapping, on oiled
foil.
- Lay fish on grapefruit; then press foil smoothly to fit underside of fish. Arrange
remaining slices of grapefruit evenly over top of fish.
- Place about 20 medium-glowing coals on each side of fire grill.
- Place grill 4 to 6 inches above coals.
- Place fish, foil-side-down, on grill directly over space between coals.
- Arrange a wad of foil under tail to support it. Drizzle fish with olive oil.
- Cover barbecue and adjust dampers or cover grill completely with heavy-duty foil,
tucking foil over edges of barbecue to seal.
- Baste occasionally with olive oil, until fish flakes easily when prodded with fork. This
should take half an hour or more.
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This recipe is complicated and time consuming, but salmon is a good source
of protein and essential fatty acids. You might serve this with an assortment of garden
greens, steamed broccoli or asparagus, and zucchini squash.
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Healthful cooking tips
If you're like most people, your idea of healthful cooking means
giving up the stuff you like. While that may be true, it does not
mean eating dull and boring foods. Quite the opposite.
Most of what constitutes the American diet consists of two
flavors:
- Corn syrup.
- Hydrogenated fats.
That is, most of what you eat tastes pretty much the same. By
eating processed "food," you give up dozens of amazing flavors that
exist in nature's bounty and that are readily available in your
local grocery store. To take advantage of those flavors, you need to
start with how you shop. Spend most of your grocery store time and
budget in the produce department.
- Your grocer has several lettuces and cabbages. Use these as
the base for raw vegetable dishes (which taste great with a
simple olive oil and vinegar dressing you can make yourself).
Iceberg lettuce? Don't bother with it.
- Bok choy, also called Chinese cabbage, is an excellent
calcium source. Yes, it beats milk on that score. Use the leaves
like lettuce and cut up the stalks as if they were celery
sticks.
- Sweet potatoes are a nutritional power house. You can bake
them in the microwave to save time.
- Mushrooms are loaded with important nutrients and add great
flavor. Buy whole ones and slice them up as needed for cooked
and raw dishes.
- Squashes come in a variety of flavors. Buy several.
- Peppers add zest and are loaded with nutrients.
- Eggplant has potent cancer-fighting properties. Dice raw
eggplant into cubes and add to salads and soups.
- Onions add flavor.
- Each time you go to the store, pick up one new vegetable you
haven't tried before.
- You should own a crockpot. Buy a bag of beans, soak them
overnight, rinse them, and then cook in the crockpot (cover
beans in 2 inches of water in the pot). You can add chopped
garlic when you add the beans, for an aroma that's wonderful and
a taste that satisfies.
You should generally avoid buying food that comes in a container.
Of course, there are exceptions. Olive oil and vinegar, for example,
aren't sold any other way (nor would you want them to be). The key
is to avoid things that are adulterated with sugars and damaged
fats, and such foods come in containers. Read the labels. A note on
beans. Canned red kidney beans come in sugar water, so buy dry red
kidney beans and cook them yourself.
Avoid products that contain wheat or corn. You can find
alternative flours in most stores, today. Oat flour, for example, is
widely avaiable.
Don't buy instant anything. Instant oats, instant coffee, etc.,
are less healthful than the regular kind.
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